Server uptime and hardware failure guide

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  How much server uptime is enough?

  IT departments should work with business leaders to decide how much uptime is enough, rather than always push for more hardware to improve server uptime. Read Now

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  Economy to require 100% server uptime by 2022

  Due to the increasing demand of the digital economy, data center uptime will surpass electrical infrastructure in importance by 2022. Read Now

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  No single factor key to uptime

  In a modern data center, availability relies on comprehensive server uptime awareness, and can't be pinned just to automation, application modularity or redundancy. Read Now

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  Server features can prevent failures

  New server processor attributes quickly fix errors and increase reliability, avoiding system failures and workload outages. Read Now

1Keep hardware failure to a minimum

Sooner or later, server hardware will fail, so don't get caught unprepared. From battery management to the right continuity plan, these tips will help you plan for the worst.

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  If you can't avoid hardware failure, plan for it

  It's impossible to prevent every hardware failure, but today's disaster planning revolves around doing your best to avoid downtime. Read Now

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  Data center failure is sometimes the best option

  How your IT team approaches and learns from data center failures shows how well it functions as a whole. Read Now

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  Learn from data center outages

  Improve data center resiliency by learning from other businesses IT mistakes. Read Now

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  An affordable IT service continuity plan

  Move away from a simple backup and restore mentality toward IT service continuity to save money in the long term.  Read Now

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  Virtualize critical infrastructure services without failure

  You have several options for virtualizing critical IT infrastructure services. Read Now

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  Data center building options from traditional to containers

  See how these companies took different approaches in the footprint, location and feel of the space when building a data center.  Read Now

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  Outsourcing battery monitoring and maintenance

  Use backup battery monitoring to take power monitoring off to-do lists, extend the life of batteries and prevent outages.  Read Now

2Keeping up with the virtualizations

Resilient virtual machines increase uptime for IT workloads and ease concerns about individual server uptime. Be sure your virtualization scheme is up to snuff with these insights on high availability and fault tolerance.

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  Should I test server high availability?

  Two experts differ on the frequency with which IT organizations should test high-availability server clusters, since they can introduce downtime. Read Now

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  DR still necessary with high availability

  Learn why a solid DR strategy is still necessary even though hypervisor vendors champion the benefits of HA. Read Now

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  How to choose the right replication technology

  Which data replication technology is right for your organization in the event of hardware failure? Read Now

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  Improving virtual machine resilience

  IT organizations should choose VM high availability implementation wisely so they don't over spend. Read Now

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  How do you protect critical VMs from hardware failure?

  Organizations can prevent a single server fault from disrupting mission-critical applications by creating a failover plan distributing workloads across multiple physical servers. Read Now

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  Workloads to keep on physical hardware

  There are several factors to consider when choosing whether or not to virtualize, including the importance of the workload and any dependencies. Read Now